'Deceitful' in the Bible
Keep your tongue from eviland your lips from deceitful speech.
Do not let my deceitful enemies rejoice over me;do not let those who hate me without causelook at me maliciously.
For they do not speak in friendly ways,but contrive deceitful schemesagainst those who live peacefully in the land.
Vindicate me, God, and defend my causeagainst an ungodly nation;rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Those who hate me without causeare more numerous than the hairs of my head;my deceitful enemies, who would destroy me,are powerful.Though I did not steal, I must repay.
For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me;they speak against me with lying tongues.
“Lord, deliver me from lying lipsand a deceitful tongue.”
What will He give you,and what will He do to you,you deceitful tongue?
A truthful witness rescues lives,but one who utters lies is deceitful.
One with a twisted mind will not succeed,and one with deceitful speech will fall into ruin.
Better a poor man who lives with integritythan someone who has deceitful lips and is a fool.
Keep falsehood and deceitful words far from me.Give me neither poverty nor wealth;feed me with the food I need.
Do not trust deceitful words, chanting: This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.
But look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.
The heart is more deceitful than anything else,and incurable—who can understand it?
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence,and its residents speak lies;the tongues in their mouths are deceitful.
Woe to the city of blood,totally deceitful,full of plunder,never without prey.
The remnant of Israel will no longerdo wrong or tell lies;a deceitful tongue will not be foundin their mouths.But they will pasture and lie down,with nothing to make them afraid.